Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and Berlin in winter was instantly bitterly cold. A few lost birds flapping their wings desperately against the bitter cold wind, trying to find their once warm nest. A rare snowstorm is approaching, and the once bustling and noisy neighborhood is unusually quiet with few pedestrians. The North Atlantic Ocean is home to a cold snap that stirs up the yellow leaves that fill the streets.

The Nationalist forces that had attacked Albert had begun to besiege the city from all sides, and Berlin was already in a panic with a cloud over it. Drinking water is still struggling to be maintained, but the water department does not seem to be doing its best, and residents have to go to locations designated by government forces every day to retrieve limited amounts of fresh water. All the hospitals in the city have been requisitioned by Albert's government forces, even the factories, shops, schools and civic squares have been turned into barracks, and in the past few days, barbed wire, sandbags, barricades, and makeshift positions have been erected at every street intersection leading to the national capital.

Citizens have lost their jobs, they have lost their safety and security, they have nothing to do but stay at home. The quality of life is no longer important to them, and being able to live is the last luxury. The change of regime left the citizens at a loss, and they also lost the most basic judgment, Albert's government army and the national army outside the city, who is the real justice and who is the executioner of this war, people cannot choose who to curse, and the only choice is to hide at home as much as possible.

Occasionally, troops passed through the streets quickly, and the heavy footsteps made the whole city seem to tremble, and the atmosphere was suffocating.

The city of Berlin had already issued a ban half a month ago, strictly prohibiting citizens from entering and leaving, except for the trenches that extended infinitely into the wilderness, all roads in the suburbs were heavily guarded by Albert's government troops, and even if the government dignitaries passed, the inventory was very tight.

People peeked out of their windows and then quickly retreated, fearing that bombs would fall from the sky at any moment.

After the Battle of Bremen, Albert's government army was on the verge of collapse, and lost most of its baggage and provisions, and nowadays, relying only on 12 artillery pieces with insufficient ammunition and an army of less than 150,000 men, Albert's ridiculous self-confidence even William? Grener was amazed, at this moment, William? Grener knew that he had a sword of Damocles hanging over his head, but it was too late, and he had no choice but to go all the way to the dark and live and die with Albert.

Outside Berlin, allegiance to Albert and support for Wilhelm? Major General Kurt? Feng? Schleicher was inspecting the front lines, and he would not miss even the smallest details, including the bunkers and advantageous positions, after all, they were facing an enemy that was an invincible Nationalist army that had swept through the southern Germans. Born in Brandenburg, the major general, after graduating from the military academy, joined the German army in 1900 as a second lieutenant. Grener was his boss.

The 19th Army, under the jurisdiction of 9 divisions, nearly 150,000 people, Kurt? Feng? Schleicher's most effective division commander was Arthur? Fred, Wifled? Bloomer, Rhodes? Elinor and Rex? Gilbert et al. The situation is not very clear, Kurt? Feng? Schleicher asked the soldiers to wait for their work at ease, and to defend to the death, as long as they succeeded in holding out for half a month, the national army would run out of ammunition and food, and then launch a counteroffensive on all fronts.

In the early morning of November 1, the commander of the 11th Panzer Division of the 1st Army of the Nationalist Army, which had been stationed outside Brandenburg and commanded by Rundstedt, was Ewald ? Major General Kleist commanded the 11th Panzer Division to spearhead the attack north along the Spree River.

The silence must first gather momentum, and with the billowing smoke, the armored torrent rushed to the first line of defense of the defenders outside the southern Berlin city of Potsdam. Feng? Schleicher searched through the binoculars, constantly adjusting his deployment.

"Come on, boy, come on." From time to time, Schleicher let out a roar of rage, and everyone in the staff looked at their commander in surprise.

The artillery roared, the fire was blazing, the southern front was covered by the artillery fire of the 11th armored car of the National Army, and the trench was suddenly in chaos. Over and over again in the telegram, Gilbert ordered the defenders to hold out and not to retreat. However, on the deafening position, his subordinates could not hear his orders at all.

The defenders were covered in blood and flesh under artillery fire, and most of the soldiers had been killed before they could see the shadow of the national army, and the rest were all cowering in the trenches and did not dare to raise their heads. The commander of the 11th Panzer Division, Ewald? Kleist was satisfied, and drove all the vehicles forward and approached the attack. A column of mighty armored vehicles surged across the open field at full speed, spewing black smoke straight towards the front of the defenders, rumbling motors from far and near, and constantly spitting out red flames as they went. The defenders had never seen such a lineup, and they trembled with fright, and the hands holding the guns began to disobey the call. The officer who served as the forward commander was stunned, shouted, and retreated with the remnants of the army.

The armored vehicles of the Nationalist Army were like no one, and the soldiers laughed heartily, scrambled to be the first, and drove straight into the ...... At this time, the division commander Ewald? Kleist suddenly found that his chariots suddenly had less to say, and they mysteriously disappeared in front.

"Stop! "However, the noise from the position was too loud, his orders did not work, and the armored vehicles still rushed like mad to the forward fortifications of the defenders. Finally conveyed the order, and his troops had already gone to one pavilion in three pavilions. Ewald? Kleist was about to send someone forward to see what was happening, when the second echelon defenders suddenly launched a counterattack, rows of grenadiers rushed out of the trench with artillery fire, and threw glass bottles containing diesel fuel into the first front trench, and then, countless torches flew to the front trench, and in an instant, the flames soared into the air, the flames soared into the sky, and the armored vehicles that had fallen into the trench were ignited together, unable to move, and could only be restrained, and some of the armored car crews crawled out with the fire, but they still did not escape the merciless devouring of the fire. The blazing flames crackled, and from time to time the armored transporter was ignited. Those irregular parabolic warheads flew all over the sky, almost causing an oolong attack. Division Commander Ewald? Kleist and Deputy Division Commander Erwin? Rommel saw that the situation was not right and ordered the rear army to be changed to the front army and immediately retreat. At this time, the infantry divisions without the cover of armored vehicles were all exposed to the forward positions of the defenders. Bloomer saw that the opportunity could not be lost, and immediately commanded the army to launch a counteroffensive, and in the blink of an eye, the situation was reversed, the national army suffered heavy casualties, and the queen retreated.

At this moment, more than 30,000 people of the Third Army of the National Army hurriedly arrived, but the front army was soon hit by the rout of the First Army, and immediately became dizzy, following the First Army with the flow, forming an inexplicable rout of the whole line.

Defeat in the first battle, Ewald? Kleist was furious and immediately summoned Colonel Erwin, the deputy division commander? Rommel, Colonel of the 111th Panzer Brigade, Brigadier Erich? Manstein, Colonel Friedrich of the 112th Panzer Brigade? Paulus, together with the commander of the 12th Infantry Division, Major General Gunter? Kluge, Major General of the 13th Infantry Division, Maximi Company? Weix urgently discussed the offensive strategy.

The Third Army of the Nationalist Army, which had been defeated in confusion before engaging the enemy, was a battle-hardened and experienced veteran force, and it quickly established itself in the chaos. Weaver? Knowing the force well, Bloomer did not continue the pursuit, but ordered his men to pick up the weapons and ammunition that the Nationalists had discarded when they fled. These advanced weapons, produced by the Eric Arsenal, were equipment that the Albert government army could not have imagined, but this strange form of supplementation made them even more proud and carried away.

The battle was short-lived, but both sides suffered heavy casualties, especially the heavily armed Nationalist First Army.

At about ten o'clock, the Third Army of the Nationalist Army launched a fierce offensive directly in front of the defenders of the Potsdam front in three directions. Bloomer's divisions hurriedly organized resistance, taking advantage of the favorable terrain and the advanced weapons of the Nationalist Army that had just been captured. The Third Army of the Nationalist Army has always fought bravely, and in the face of the defenders' frantic resistance, it would rather die than retreat, and follow one after another. The soldiers who rushed to the front fell in rows, and the soldiers behind charged quickly, and the defenders suffered light casualties because of the trenches used as cover, and when they faced these desperate national troops, although they killed easily, they also killed themselves with fear and cold.

The bullets screamed in their ears and made a "plop" sound when they hit people's bodies, and the soldiers kept falling on the way to charge, and the wounded soldiers fell to the ground and shouted and screamed, and some simply refilled their own shots......

A small school on the outskirts of Potsdam was a slaughterhouse, where Albert's temporary field doctors were stationed, and the ground lay on the ground with wounded men in urgent need of surgery, some of whom had been confirmed dead, and the field team was busy disposing of the bodies, including removing their armbands and registering their names and places of origin. Blood was flowing everywhere on the ground, and many of the wounded were dying before they could be treated.

Occasionally, snow fell from the sky, and some of the wounded were naked, and their lives were in danger, and even if they did not die on the battlefield, they could freeze to death.

The battle was extremely fierce, the charges launched by the Third Army of the Nationalist Army were repulsed again and again, but the rear army kept replenishing, and a high mountain of corpses had been built in front of the forward position of the Albert defenders, and blood was flowing down from the corpse mountain, and the corpses of the soldiers at the bottom had completely turned into abstract bloody people. There were more than 200 people in the Third Army's combat service team, and they kept transporting the wounded back and forth, and when they were too busy, they let the soldiers who were slightly more injured support each other and returned to the ambulance station.

At noon, most of the officers and men of the Third Army of the Nationalist Army slowly approached the first trench of the forward position through bloody fighting, but the Albert government army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately repeated its old trick. In order to effectively defend against the offensive of the Nationalist Army, Wilfried? Bloomer ordered all the first and second line trenches to be dug wide and deep, and even if the attacking troops occupied the first line of trenches, they could not easily climb the steep pit walls, and soon became easy targets for the defenders.

Sure enough, the Nationalist troops who rushed to the front jumped off the first line of trenches one after another, but they had not yet succeeded in climbing the pit wall on the opposite side, and the follow-up troops jumped into the trenches one after another, and as a result, the entire trench was filled. At this time, the defenders of Albert suddenly jumped out of the trench, and the raindrops of diesel cylinders continued to fly into the first trench, and the glass bottles hit each other and broke one after another, and the trenches and the officers and men of the Third Army were all drenched with diesel, and then, countless torches fell from the sky, and the entire trench was suddenly engulfed in flames......

After successive defeats, the Third Army of the Nationalist Army suffered heavy losses, but did not break through a single step forward, and had to temporarily retreat and carefully study the offensive line again.